The bloggers are starting to see some of the same issues that Linux distributions have been running into forever- the balance between being a constructive aggregator of the works and goodwill of a community and being a leech on that same community. Turns out my boss’s boss (John Palfrey) is going to be inadvertently at [...]
Last night’s speculations on lighttpd were, it turns out, a tiny bit hasty. Tweaking the fastcgi configuration made lighttpd much more robust. I’m still not 100% satisfied but overall much happier than I was- hopefully satisfaction comes tomorrow. :) Thanks to the several folks who contacted me for their suggestions/support.
Was working late-ish last night, trying to get some stuff working for the announcement we’re making next week. The good news: lighttpd seems fully capable of serving a million pages an hour on our hardware. The bad news: under load, lighttpd seems to crash quite reliably every 250-300 pages, even when serving perfectly static pages [...]
Discovered this evening that I was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article on online presence and the job hunt tonight, by way of an email from the gentleman behind ClaimID. ClaimID looks like an interesting idea-basically give people tools to manage their online identity. I’m curious to play with their beta (which they are [...]
Speaking of open standards… Google Talk has turned on federation. Yay google.
Thomas: I am a proud, open-format loving leftie. The only mp3s I have on my music server are, ironically, illegal, copyright-violating mashups.
I admit, though, that I have something like 102 .doc files on my HD. Sorry :/ I continue to argue that we should at least provide Open Office at work, following the principles outlined [...]
Most brilliant blonde joke ever, or at least in our internet-connected age.
Duke, as usual, has owned Carolina, perhaps by the largest margin ever. (Hi, Todd.)
My second-favorite gay-rights marijuana-legalization Republican will be on Colbert tomorrow. I’m excited.
JRB tells me that Project Ridley is actually moving along. I’m pleasantly surprised- I hadn’t seen any news, so I’d [...]
I have on occasion posted pictures of my TV, used as a monitor for a liveCD boot. Flipping through the manual this morning, I stumbled on… the GPL. Turns out the TV has embedded linux in it. Funky.
Work
Had my three month review at work yesterday, albeit a bit belatedly. Have to admit I’m struggling a little bit- I never had to juggle so many projects or so many masters at Ximian/Novell, and am having problems keeping everything sorted/prioritized. Hopefully will be able to improve that for the rest of my term.
Reading
Stumbled on [...]
Amusing image from lunch with David Berlind: Microsoft and IBM as Lee Van Cleef and pals from the the good, the bad, and the ugly- endlessly circling each other in the graveyard, desperately wanting to get all the gold for themselves.
